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When the American Civil War ended, and the diseased nation lifted itself from the ashes for its Reconstruction era, do we suppose that the average historian believed this to be a one-off anomaly? Or, is it more probable that an astute historian would recognize the inequality, division, and greed to be inherent defects of the experimental nation? Let us suppose we do not know the answer. But if the…
Thinking Through It I have spent my life adamantly opposed to the idea of the spirit. After all, what is the spirit but a golden one-size-fits-all tool for religious indoctrination? When I was a child, I felt pretty clear on that after some bouts of Sunday school (and one over-the-top Hell House – but arent’t they all?). Thus have I spent nearly my whole life convinced of our binary construction:…
Here is a woman I drew last night. The assignment (in a sense) was to identify and recreate some of the general proportions of the face. For example, how it is common for 1.) the eyes to be about one eye apart, 2.) the bottom of the lip to be equidistant between the bottoms of the nose and chin, 3.) the mouth tends to run from about the middle of one eye to the other, and 4.) the brow line sits…
"Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable." ~Cesar A. Cruz Sofia Isella is a 21 year-old woman with an astute perspective unnatural for a woman so young. Her verses are cut with razor blades, and she uses her voice to condemn what is broken and wrong. The imagery she chooses often exemplifies the quote above. If her words bring you comfort, lean into it. If her words disturb…
A spider and a fly will seldom see eye-to-eye. But when communication hits an obstacle between two people who care about each other and want the same things, what tends to get in the way? I propose that communication between two compatible communicators can be divided into three (3) distinct parts. For our purposes here, let us define a pair of compatible communicators to be two people who have an…
Were there but a modicum of mercy to be found in our modern world, I would not need to address politics in the United States. The topic is (supposed to be) narrow, specific to citizens of one country. But mercy has been bought out; mercilessness, instead, monopolizes the wider corporate sentiment, and thus mercy was gutted and flayed on the “Free Market” as they call it. “Mercy” has gone the way…
Suppose we were to consider development of a universal language , one which would be approachable to and actively utilized by most or all of the world's nations. What are some of the primary motivations and considerations that would distinguish such a language, and elevate it to one worthy of global adoption? I posit that the following would endear leaders to its construction: Key Qualities 1.…
Former "gifted" child with "high potential" beaten bloody by burnout and ever-burgeoning disappointment in my fellow humans. In my mid-30's, unemployed and trying to find meaning and purpose, I plan to use this blog as a personal outlet to organize my thoughts and my own growth. Having worked multiple jobs in some of the most corrupt industries imaginable (think along the lines of American health…